Author: Ellie Seybold

The Return to In-Person Meetings and Events: 7 Tips for Corporate Planners

Don’t call it a comeback. Meetings and events have been here for years. Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions made it nearly impossible to gather beyond virtual meetings for quite a while. But there’s more to life than staring at a computer screen. We all know that. We’ve all known that. These past years have left most of…
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“I need WHAT to go WHERE?!”

7 Tips for Managing International Business Travel (and travelers) Don’t be that person. Don’t let your travelers be that person either for that matter. You know, that person who, after standing in the international line at the airport for hours…and hours… is caught completely off guard by an entry requirement. International business travel is ramping…
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Renewing Your Passport Could Be Getting Easier: Here’s How

An estimated 53 million American adults left the country this summer, and it’s safe to say international travel is back. Many destinations lifted their pandemic-era travel mandates,though it can still take quite a bit of checking (and re-checking) to go abroad – especially if your passport is expired. But, for those who live in the…
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Gant Travel Launches Travel Solutions Division

August 19, 2022, Bloomington, IN.  Gant Travel, an award-winning travel management company, announces the creation of a new service offering aimed at enabling other travel ecosystem members to harness the benefits of Gant. The new branch, titled ‘Gant’s Travel Solutions’, offers support to corporations seeking efficiencies and quality demonstrated by Gant’s ticketing and call center…
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Gant Travel Opts for Vindow to Streamline Hotel Sourcing and Contract Renewal Processes

BLOOMINGTON, IN – Gant Travel, an awarding-winning TMC serving the North American corporate sector, announces its selection of Vindow’s hotel sourcing technology platform to automate its corporate hotel rate process.  Part of the account management function of every travel management company (TMC) is assisting corporate customers in selecting and applying negotiated rates at key hotel…
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Gant Travel Selects Aimendo’s Orchestrator, a Novel Free Text Omni-Channel Bot Platform

BLOOMINGTON, IN – Gant Travel, an awarding-winning TMC serving the North American corporate sector, announces the selection of Aimendo’s Orchestrator for email parsing technology to identify critical information in email travel requests.  Email travel requests comprise a component of every corporate agency’s offering.  Because of their unstructured nature, email service requests remain one area where agencies must…
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Seriously, What’s Going On With Domestic Airfare Right Now?

If you travelled at all this summer, you likely became familiar with packed airports, delayed flights, cancelled flights, and of course…higher domestic airfare prices. After more than two years of pandemic-era restrictions, many (if not most) business travelers are willing to put up with all of these setbacks – and then some. All of them.…
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How a Better Profile Can Improve Your Post-Pandemic Travel Experience

Preparing for an upcoming business trip? Finally… right? Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve checked into what’s happening in business travel? What does post-pandemic travel even look like? It can be hard to navigate the current travel landscape alone, especially with the rules continuing to change on a regular basis. Intimidated by all changes that…
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Are masks still required for travel?

Yes, for the most part. Travelers still need to bring and wear masks at airports, trains, and bus depots – and many hotels, restaurants, and venues. It may not be for much longer, though, as mask and distancing restrictions are being removed or relaxed in more and more locations and many public figures are seeking…
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Travel is Getting Easier – Here’s What You Should Know

While the Omicron variant continues to impact travel in parts of the world, many are seeing countries, states, and cities begin to lift their COVID-19 restrictions. Officials are now defining their response by the various circumstances in their specific regions, and many nations have even cancelled rules put in place for the pandemic altogether.  Business…
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